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Even my players aren't players.

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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
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Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
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Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
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